Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Published on 12. December 2013
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-1-61148-540-0 (ISBN)
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Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr.
Reviews / Votes
Students of literary studies typically tend to view bibliographical and textual criticism as the most austere and objective areas of our cognitive domain, those methodologies aspiring most convincingly toward the status of the hard sciences. Many of the essays in Jesse Swan's fine Editing Lives support this reputation. However, by belonging to the genre of festschrift, the present volume also embraces a moving and subjective humanity, as it celebrates the life and career of the eminent Johnsonian whom friends and colleagues fondly called "Skip." All who knew him will surely acknowledge Skip to be a rarely fine human being as well as a top drawer scholar. The apparatus of Editing Lives, that bookend these essays, offer eloquent testimony to these claims. . . .The editor has divided the book into three sections: 1. "Textual Studies," 2. "Biographical Studies," and 3. "Edition." Within these heads are arranged eleven scholarly essays and a translation. . . .[which] serves as a fitting conclusion to a sound and rewarding excellent volume. * Intelligencer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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With dust jacket
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3 BW Photos
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-540-0 (9781611485400)
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Contents
Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend
Jerry Beasley
Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own
Matthew Brack
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jesse G. Swan
Part I: Textual Studies
1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle
Loren Rothschild
2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions
James E. May
3 Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures: Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot
Walter H. Keithley
4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planche's Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover
Jennifer M. Santos
Part II: Biographical Studies
5 Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
6 Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment
Gordon Turnbull
7 Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber
Michael Bundock
8 Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career
Leslie Chilton
9 Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II
Martine W. Brownley
10 Swift's Politics Reconsidered
Thomas Kaminski
11 The Work of a Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith's The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ
Christopher D. Johnson
Part III: Edition
12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi: "une petite histoire"
Translated and edited by Peter Sabor
Coda, "But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the consolation of your company": The Career, with a Listing of Publications, of O M Brack, Jr.
Jesse G. Swan
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend
Jerry Beasley
Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own
Matthew Brack
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jesse G. Swan
Part I: Textual Studies
1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle
Loren Rothschild
2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions
James E. May
3 Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures: Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot
Walter H. Keithley
4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planche's Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover
Jennifer M. Santos
Part II: Biographical Studies
5 Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
6 Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment
Gordon Turnbull
7 Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber
Michael Bundock
8 Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career
Leslie Chilton
9 Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II
Martine W. Brownley
10 Swift's Politics Reconsidered
Thomas Kaminski
11 The Work of a Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith's The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ
Christopher D. Johnson
Part III: Edition
12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi: "une petite histoire"
Translated and edited by Peter Sabor
Coda, "But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the consolation of your company": The Career, with a Listing of Publications, of O M Brack, Jr.
Jesse G. Swan
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index